Yanjanani Chumbu and Khozie Masimbe must be \u2018John the Baptist\u2019 \u2013 should I say Johns the baptists? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! If not, why do they always perform before Black Missionaries lead vocalist Anjiru Fumulani storms the stage? \u2014 of Black Missionaries Enough of that.
\nBut, somehow, Chumbu and Masimbe seem to, sometimes, have a \u2018John the Baptist\u2019 of their own. Yes, I mean someone who clears the dew in the grass before the \u2018real\u2019 guys\u2014 you know we always have people who are more equal than others in life, whether one likes it or not. It is painful, but a fact of life. I do not know why\u2014 come and claim all the glory for themselves on stage.
\nI do not know if things work this way with the Black Missionaries. What I know, though, is that Chumbu and Masimbe had a \u2018John the Baptist\u2019 of their own on Tuesday, December 26, when the Chileka-based band dated fans at Mibawa Multi-Purpose Hall in Blantyre.
\nBefore the Black Missionaries\u2014 sorry, I mean Anjiru. Remember, some people are more equal than others. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! \u2014 took to the stage. I mean, before Chumbu took to the stage [moments] before Masimbe took to the stage, which was before Anjiru took to the stage, another one took to the stage before they, one by one, took to the stage.
\nHa! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
\nNow, before Anjiru and Chizondi accuse me of liking chamba [genre, not cannabis]\u2026 cha reggae, let me go straight to the point. The man who took to the stage\u2014 before Chumbu took to the stage before Masimbe, who took to the stage after Chumbu, had taken to the stage after the individual I am referring to took to the stage to play a modern-day John the Baptist\u2014 surprised everyone by what he said.
\nThe man I am referring to is, as my title suggests, Peter Amidu, one of the best bass guitarists on offer in this country.
\nPeter Amidu decided to steal the light from the Director of Ceremonies by grabbing the microphone to make what, many thought, was an important announcement.
\nPeter Amidu \u2013 I will not refer to him simply as Amidu or Peter; for he is Peter Amidu\u2014 is a man of few words, at least to those of us who look at him from afar.
\nAnd, so, whenever he grabs the microphone, the world listens. The \u2018world\u2019\u2014 meaning, the people\u2014 feel like, \u2018finally, Peter Amidu will tell us who he is and what he wants and how he will get it and what it means that he wants it and what it will mean when he does or does not get it, and what the world should do according to Rastafarian teachings.
\nNow, Peter Amidu can speak his mind, not with the guitar, but his mouth. The way he did it here.
\n\u201cJah, rastafari\u2026\u201d he shouted.
\n\u201cI know you are celebrating Christmas. Let me tell you that we, Rastas, do not celebrate Christmas because we do not know the actual date Jesus Christ was born, and we are still investigating,\u201d said Peter Amidu, to the chagrin of those who had thronged Mibawa Multi- Purpose Hall as part of Christmas festivities.
\n\u201cWasuta chamba eti?\u201d Someone shouted in the audience. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
\n\u201cNext time sitidzabweranso,\u201d one woman added.
\n\u201cUdziwanso mphwanya,\u201d shouted another, who had a bottle of\u2014 okay, let me call it apricot! You know this is not an advertising space for a certain bitter-something which people gulp down their throats to work magic in their minds. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
\nNow, the way the people spoke, it was clear that it was not part theatre or part of the celebration. The people who spoke were thoroughly inflated, but Peter Amidu was indifferent.
\nHow was Peter Amidu \u2018punished\u2019? Well, he was denied his \u2018right\u2019 to sweat.
\nYou see, Chizondi, Anjiru, Masimbe, Chumbu and all the people who played a stage-role in Black Missionaries\u2019 performance were sweating; so that, every 20 minutes or so, Anjiru could wipe sweat from his face.
\nAnd Anjiru could do it deliberately slow; so that, perhaps, the women and men in the audience could wonder: \u2018So, Anjiru also sweats? He is human after all!\u201d
\nHa! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
\nSweating must be a \u2018blessing\u2019; for, as Anjiru and others took turns to wipe sweat from their faces\u2014 Chumbu\u2019s traditional attire was actually drenched in sweat, while Anjiru\u2019s Chinese collar t-shirt was equally \u2018hugged\u2019 by sweat\u2014 Peter Amidu\u2019s top, which was red, gold [yellow] [rastas omit black these days; I do not know why. But there is always an invisible black on a rastaman and woman\u2019s attire] and green was as dry as the bald of an old man in mid-October.
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